One researcher apparently admitted to being a pedophile and called for an end to the stigma of “minor”.
“Brecht Vaerwaeter” wrote in an academic journal how he was attracted to men under a pseudonym.
It graphically describes multiple sexual events involving children, such as taking a 15-year-old to his tent and sucking his thumb and following a 13-year-old asleep while he has a “painful” erection.
Vaerwaeter said pedophilia should be recognized as a legitimate sexual orientation and people like him should be accepted by society.
The Diary of Controversial Ideas, in which he published his controversial article, is organized by academics from Oxford University and Princeton University in the United States, with an editorial board of dozens of distinguished scholars from both countries.
Vaerwaeter’s 10,000-word article was first published in April, but only recently came to light after a snippet from the feminist website redux.
That follows up on the scientific outcry earlier this month for another paper by a doctoral student at the University of Manchester detailing drawings of children’s masturbation.
Should pedophiles be more accepted by society? That’s what a scientist was discussing in an academic journal.
In the article itself, Mr. Vaerwaeter says he first realized his interest in children when he was 17, when he lived in Belgium in the 1990s.
“I loved the smooth calves of sophomores in my gym class,” she wrote.
She says she later volunteered to supervise children at a school retreat where she had sexual fantasies about boys.
Worse still, when she was 19 and later an adult, she joined a summer youth club and began developing relationships with boys.
One, Cédric, was 13 at the time and Mr. Vaerwaeter said he desperately wanted to touch the baby at night.
“I was a little cautious. We were basically in the spoon position,” he said.
He described experiencing a “prolonged, eventually painful erection” during the incident, which he said was “highly undesirable and inappropriate”.
Later that summer, Mr. Vaerwaeter cheerfully accepted the young man’s offer to spend the night in his tent.
“As I hoped, it wasn’t just about sleeping as he wasn’t opposed to the occasional wrestling and mutual tickling,” he said.
Another interaction, this time with Jeroen, a 15-year-old boy who crosses even more ethical lines.
“That evening in the tent, he asked if I had a room with me because he wanted to come and sleep there,” Mr. Vaerwaeter recalls.
“He took my hand and pressed it to his face.
“I was overwhelmed with emotion and started stroking his face, then he opened his mouth a little and sucked my finger for a while.”
In his article titled “Pedophile as a Human: An Autoethnography for Recognizing a Marginalized Sexual Orientation,” Mr. Vaerwaeter claims that he has never had or encouraged sex with a minor.
However, he advocates wider acceptance of pedophiles in society.
“I believe that pedophilia should be openly recognized as a sexual orientation by anyone involved in any way in issues of gender identity,” she said.
Vaerwaeter added that pedophiles deserve “recognition and attention for their emotional problems.”
“It is unethical and intellectually dishonest to reject pedophilia as a sexual orientation,” he said.
He drew a line in advocating “members of the pedophile community” who have sex with children or use child pornography.
But Vaerwaeter added that more needs to be done to help “tens of thousands of young people” with “pedophilic feelings”.
He looked to the LGBTQ+ community to provide a basis for this movement.
“Pedophiles make up a certain sexual minority,” Vaerwaeter wrote. ‘[They] They face the same stigma, discrimination and social isolation issues as other members of the LGBT community, but to a greater extent.
“If the community is to be inclusive, it must match the ‘+’ meaning in the abbreviation.”
Vaerwaeter said greater acceptance would help pedophiles by providing them with mental support and preventing potential child abuse.
“Telling them that they are not alone, that they are not doomed to abuse children, that they can find someone to talk to, that they can prevent the worst evil and even prevent child sexual abuse.”
It was previously introduced by some experts that pedophilia is more accepted.
Some groups are joining the debate, such as the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a British organization that campaigned to lower the age of consent in the 1980s.
Several Labor Party politicians were associated with the PIE campaign because of their ties to the National Civil Liberties Council at the time.
But others have argued that making pedophilia more socially acceptable will encourage people who are sexually attracted to children to come forward and seek mental health care.
Mr. Vaerwaeter describes his own struggle against “isolation” as he cannot discuss his “sexuality”.
“I continue to find it sad and problematic that I can’t be open about my sexuality in the environment I work in, in an environment of open-minded and highly educated people,” she said.
The Journal of Controversial Ideas is edited by Professor Jeff McMahan, an expert in moral philosophy at Oxford University and Professor Peter Singer, a bioethicist at Princeton University.
They founded the journal in response to the “destroying culture” and allowed scholars to publish “offensive, immoral or dangerous” articles under a false name if they wanted to.
The magazine has some rules, for example, it says it will not publish information about biological weapons production and the final decision will be made by the editors.
“What is dangerous and what is not is determined on a case-by-case basis by the editors, in consultation with the editorial board and, if necessary, outside experts,” the editorial policy states.
The journal was contacted for comment on the publication of Vaerwaeter’s article.
This latest article turns to another controversial academic article on potentially pedophile content.
Earlier this month, Karl Andersson, a PhD student at the University of Manchester, was criticized by academics and the public for publishing an article describing how he masturbated to Japanese comics with men for three months.
Publishing the piece in the journal Qualitative Research, Andersson said he was researching a breed known as the shota and described the distinctive designs of that breed. “Beautifully male characters or often sexually explicit”.
She wrote that she decided to research the subject after she “hit the wall” in her work with people who love the genre.
“So I started reading comics, as my research participants told me: While masturbating,” he said.
Qualitative Research editors later retracted the article after a review, acknowledging the “harm” caused by the publication.
The University of Manchester launched its own investigation and, as it continued, claimed to have suspended the student in question as a “precautionary measure”, but Andersson is still listed as a researcher on its website.
In a statement from the university, it was stated that Manchester Police launched an investigation into the matter and helped.
Source: Daily Mail

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